Penance & Prayers After Confession

If penance includes specific prayers, take time now to repent for your sins while you humbly pray to the Father.

If your penance includes the Rosary, click HERE.

Reflection:
The Sacrament of Penance and the Lord’s mercy in the form of Absolution is a serious matter - for it has cost our Lord his life. There is little else that can humble the contrite man more fully than this realization. We are encouraged to abandon ourselves completely to God - to not withhold anything, knowing that God embraces us completely and fully because of the sacrifice our Lord Jesus Christ made on Calvary.

After any penitential prayers ordered by the priest, pray the following repentantly in English, Latin, or Both:

ALMIGHTY and most merciful God, Who, according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies, hast vouchsafed once more to receive Thy prodigal child after so many times going astray from Thee, and to admit me to this Sacrament of reconciliation; I give Thee thanks with all the powers of my soul for this and all other mercies, graces, and blessings bestowed on me, and prostrating myself at Thy sacred feet, I offer myself to be henceforth for ever Thine.

Oh, let nothing in life or death ever separate me from Thee! I renounce with my whole soul all my treasons against Thee, and all the abominations and sins of my past life. I renew my promises made in baptism, and from this moment I dedicate myself eternally to Thy love and service. Oh, grant that for the time to come, I may abhor sin more than death itself, and avoid all such occasions and companions as have unhappily brought me to it. This I resolve to do by the aid of Thy divine grace, without which I can do nothing.

I beg Thy blessing upon these my resolutions, that they may not be ineffectual like so many others I have formerly made, for, O Lord, without Thee I am nothing but misery and sin. Supply also, by Thy mercy, whatever defects have been in this my confession, and give me grace to be now and always a true penitent. Through the same Jesus Christ Thy Son. Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie,
et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut
et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.

Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. 

Make the Sign of the Cross and say “In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen”

or in Latin "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen."